Patents by Inventor Lucian Baciu
Lucian Baciu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20220222249Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating enhanced search services. In an implementation, an enhanced search service receives a search query associated with a user and responsively identifies documents relevant to the search query. The enhanced search service also identifies a social label for each of the documents that is at least partly representative of how the document relates socially to the user. The enhanced search service replies to the search query with search results indicative of at least the documents and the social label for each of the documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Fredrik HOLM, Dmitry SHAPORENKOV, Rune DJURHUUS, Lucian BACIU, Tiago Duarte PREGUEIRO JERÓNIMO, Helge Grenager SOLHEIM
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Patent number: 11356528Abstract: Context and social distance aware fast live people cards are described. A user context and/or a relevant person context may be determined in response to detecting a user interest in viewing contact information. The user context may include user's attributes such as organizational position, preferences, location, working hours, which application the user is employing, etc. Relevant person context may include context information (similar to the user's) for people within a predefined social distance such as the user's peers, supervisor(s), close friends, etc. Information associated with one or more persons of interest to the user may then be selected and retrieved from a cache storage at a server a productivity service to be provided to a client application for display to the user. Information to be stored in server cache for rapid retrieval may also be selected based on user and relevant person context using observed user behavior.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Stefan Debald, Oleg Melnychuk, Manfred Nysted Berry, Andreas Eide, Alexander J. Pope, Lucian Baciu, Janaka C. Perera, Ivan Dijan, Marius Tennoe, Dmytro Baglai
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Patent number: 11238056Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating enhanced search services. In an implementation, an enhanced search service receives a search query associated with a user and responsively identifies documents relevant to the search query. The enhanced search service also identifies a social label for each of the documents that is at least partly representative of how the document relates socially to the user. The enhanced search service replies to the search query with search results indicative of at least the documents and the social label for each of the documents.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Fredrik Holm, Dmitry Shaporenkov, Rune Djurhuus, Lucian Baciu, Tiago Duarte Pregueiro Jerónimo, Helge Grenager Solheim
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Publication number: 20200153930Abstract: Context and social distance aware fast live people cards are described. A user context and/or a relevant person context may be determined in response to detecting a user interest in viewing contact information. The user context may include user's attributes such as organizational position, preferences, location, working hours, which application the user is employing, etc. Relevant person context may include context information (similar to the user's) for people within a predefined social distance such as the user's peers, supervisor(s), close friends, etc. Information associated with one or more persons of interest to the user may then be selected and retrieved from a cache storage at a server a productivity service to be provided to a client application for display to the user. Information to be stored in server cache for rapid retrieval may also be selected based on user and relevant person context using observed user behavior.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Stefan Debald, Oleg Melnychuk, Manfred Nysted Berry, Andreas Eide, Alexander J. Pope, Lucian Baciu, Janaka C. Perera, Ivan Dijan, Marius Tennoe, Dmytro Baglai
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Patent number: 10536551Abstract: Context and social distance aware fast live people cards are described. A user context and/or a relevant person context may be determined in response to detecting a user interest in viewing contact information. The user context may include user's attributes such as organizational position, preferences, location, working hours, which application the user is employing, etc. Relevant person context may include context information (similar to the user's) for people within a predefined social distance such as the user's peers, supervisor(s), close friends, etc. Information associated with one or more persons of interest to the user may then be selected and retrieved from a cache storage at a server a productivity service to be provided to a client application for display to the user. Information to be stored in server cache for rapid retrieval may also be selected based on user and relevant person context using observed user behavior.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Stefan Debald, Oleg Melnychuk, Manfred Nysted Berry, Andreas Eide, Alexander J. Pope, Lucian Baciu, Janaka C. Perera, Ivan Dijan, Marius Tennoe, Dmytro Baglai
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Publication number: 20180198884Abstract: Context and social distance aware fast live people cards are described. A user context and/or a relevant person context may be determined in response to detecting a user interest in viewing contact information. The user context may include user's attributes such as organizational position, preferences, location, working hours, which application the user is employing, etc. Relevant person context may include context information (similar to the user's) for people within a predefined social distance such as the user's peers, supervisor(s), close friends, etc. Information associated with one or more persons of interest to the user may then be selected and retrieved from a cache storage at a server a productivity service to be provided to a client application for display to the user. Information to be stored in server cache for rapid retrieval may also be selected based on user and relevant person context using observed user behavior.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2017Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Stefan Debald, Oleg Melnychuk, Manfred Nysted Berry, Andreas Eide, Alexander J. Pope, Lucian Baciu, Janaka C. Perera, Ivan Dijan, Marius Tennoe, Dmytro Baglai
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Patent number: 9514191Abstract: A method, system, and one or more computer-readable storage media for visualizing ranking factors for items in a search result list are provided herein. The method includes generating a search result list for a query and generating a visualization of one or more ranking factors for each of a number of items in the search result list.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Helge Grenager Solheim, Anders Fagerhaug, John Hartley Toews, Sarah Brodwall, Rune Djurhuus, Dmitry Shaporenkov, Morgan Larsson, Lucian Baciu
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Publication number: 20160203510Abstract: A personalized campaign engine is provided. The personalized campaign engine selects a user as a candidate receiver of a campaign message. A personalized campaign message is generated for the user that comprises content items that are relevant to the user based on identified relationships between the user and content items and relationships between the user and other individuals. Relationships between the user and content items and relationships between the user and other individuals are identified by interrogating disparate repositories of information for organizational relationship data and activity data associated with the user. The personalized campaign engine customizes the campaign message for the user by using known information about the user to select a certain template, medium, and delivery strategy.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2015Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.Inventors: Tiago Pregueiro, Lucian Baciu, Sverre Tennøe, Rune Devik, Bjørnstein Lilleby, Erlend Jensen, Stein Arild Jakobsen, Oleg Melnychuk
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Publication number: 20150248429Abstract: Generation and presentation of visual representations of search results may be provided. In response to any type of search for which one or more content or information items are returned, a preview image is obtained or generated and displayed in a graphical user interface for allowing a user to preview documents or other information items returned for the search query. The displayed preview image may be a selectable object such that selection of the displayed preview image allows the user to navigate to or launch the content item, for example, a searched document, corresponding to the preview image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2014Publication date: September 3, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Tiago Pregueiro, Dmitry Shaporenkov, Lucian Baciu, Rune Djurhuus, Sverre Tennøe, Jørgen Iversen, Joshua Stickler, Helge Grenager Solheim, Zbigniew Tadeusz Manasterski
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Publication number: 20150120700Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating enhanced search services. In an implementation, an enhanced search service receives a search query associated with a user and responsively identifies documents relevant to the search query. The enhanced search service also identifies a social label for each of the documents that is at least partly representative of how the document relates socially to the user. The enhanced search service replies to the search query with search results indicative of at least the documents and the social label for each of the documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Fredrik Holm, Dmitry Shaporenkov, Rune Djurhuus, Lucian Baciu, Tiago Duarte Pregueiro Jerónimo, Helge Grenager Solheim
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Publication number: 20140280080Abstract: A method, system, and one or more computer-readable storage media for visualizing ranking factors for items in a search result list are provided herein. The method includes generating a search result list for a query and generating a visualization of one or more ranking factors for each of a number of items in the search result list.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Helge Grenager Solheim, Anders Fagerhaug, John Hartley Toews, Sarah Brodwall, Rune Djurhuus, Dmitry Shaporenkov, Morgan Larsson, Lucian Baciu